Lovemylife
Just to add to the excellent advice given earlier about setting up PoA. You can appoint as many attorneys as you wish and choose whether they act jointly or severally. However - “If you’re appointed jointly with another attorney or attorneys and one of you stops being an attorney, the enduring power of attorney ends automatically.”
which is why all joint attorneys should be appointed 'severally and together, so that if one attorney is unavailable, temprarily or permanently, the remaining attorney can continue to act.
A friend's father made her and her DH joint attorneys. Her father died, her mother went into care with dementia and her husband be came seriously ill and died quite young and with all thegrief of the loss of her husband, she was having to contend with having to sort out a new power of attorney for her mother through the Court of Protection. It took her to the edge of the abyss.
. When she eventually did succumb to dementia we had to go to court to get Power of Attorney. Quite costly, as I remember,